they are making me do my homework. >> romney aides play down expectations, new jersey governor chris christie continued to ramp them up. >> it's a huge night. a bad couple of weeks and we want to turn this around. if you want to turn it around, you got to perform on the biggest stage. >> speaking of turning around a slew of national polls have come out all showing the same thing, mitt romney inching back up only a few points behind down from two to four points. what's interesting is that president obama's numbers locked in place at 49, the fluid itity is in mitt romney's number. >> chuck todd in denver, thank you. bill o'reilly is the host of the o'reilly factor on fox news and the author of killing kennedy, the end of cam 0 lat. good to see you. promise we're going to talk about the book but i have to ask you about politics. i heard you say on your show that polls don't really matter until after the debates which i take it to mean you do think these debates are incredibly important. >> from the beginning i've said that because people don't really know who mitt romney is. so the pres